![]() ![]() Knowing that the police will do little to help, and many will already be in the pockets of those who commissioned the killings, Lydia has no choice but to take Luca, grab what she can and run, knowing that it may be impossible to escape the long arm of the Mexican cartels.įollowing this breathless opening, Cummins delivers a page-turning thriller where there is literally danger around every corner for her main characters. ![]() This is modern Acapulco, a former holiday town now firmly in the grip of the drug cartels. The next thing he knows he is cowering in the shower with his mother, Lydia below them, assassins systematically slaughter his whole family. Eight-year-old Luca is going to the toilet when a bullet fired from downstairs narrowly misses him. Jeanine Cummins’s novel about the journey of a Mexican mother and son fleeing to the US has sparked a storm of controversy.Īmerican Dirt opens with a scene that is as shocking as it is gripping. Tags: American Dirt/ drug cartels/ immigration/ Jeanine Cummins/ publishing/ refugees/ US fiction/ US-Mexico border ![]()
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